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Title: The Naphtha Revolution
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Untold Story of an Invention that Changed the World
Author: Graeme Ferguson
Format: Hardback
Type: Hardback
ISBN-10: 1988025907
EAN: 9781988025902
ISBN: 9781988025902
Publisher: Barlow Book Publishing inc.
Genre: Travel & Transport
Topic: History
Release Date: 06/10/2022
Description: A beautifully illustrated coffee-table book that launches the reader into the moneyed world of late 19th-century America, when men once known as Robber Barons amassed great fortunes and bought glamorous boats for themselves and their friends and family. In these early days, boats were powered by steam engines, but unfortunately some of the boilers exploded, with lethal consequences. It was a Swedish immigrant, Frank Ofeldt, who found the answer: naphtha, a derivative of oil that was used in lamps. He found a way to control the volatile substance, and then used his knowledge and experience to invent the naphtha launch, the world's first successful motorboat. It was, as the late author Weston Farmer put it, a landmark in the history of technology—like the Model T Ford, the DC-3 airplane, and the Zippo lighter. As told by a modern inventor, the late co-founder of Imax, this book describes the 19th-century invention, its financing, production, and the challenges in bringing it to market.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: CA
Item Height: 260mm
Item Length: 35mm
Item Width: 209mm
Release Year: 2022

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